Q1) The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.


Q2) Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Q3) Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Q4) Even weak men when united are powerful.

Q5) The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Q6) Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

Q7) Hardly one man in ten knows himself.

Q8) The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Q9) When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful.